7,638 Quotes About Dreams

HarlemWhat happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?

In dreams begin responsibilities.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

I had a certain talent for friendship, but I never had any friends, either because they never appeared, or because the friendship I had imagined was a mistake made by my dreams. I always lived an isolated life, which became more and more isolated the more I came to know myself.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.